Preposition of time
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Explanations
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Example
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on
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- days
- weekend (American English)
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- Many shops don't open on Sundays.
- What did you do on the weekend?
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in
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- months / seasons / year
- morning / evening / afternoon
- period of time
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- I visited Italy in July, in spring, in 1994
- In the evenings, I like to relax.
- This is the first cigarette I've had in three years.
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at
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- night
- weekend (British English)
- used to show an exact or a particular time:
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- It gets cold at night.
- What did you do at the weekend?
- There's a meeting at 2.30 this afternoon / at lunch time.
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since
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- from a particular time in the past until a later
time, or until now
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- England have not won the World Cup in football since 1966
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for
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- used to show an amount of time.
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- I'm just going to bed for an hour or so.
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ago
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- back in the past; back in time from the present:
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- The dinosaurs died out 65 million yearsago.
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before
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- at or during a time earlier than
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- She's always up before dawn.
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to
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- used when saying the time, to mean before the stated
hour
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past
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to
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- until a particular time, marking end of a period of
time
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- It's only two weeks to Christmas.
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from
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- used to show the time when something starts
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- The museum is open from 9.30 to 6.00 Tuesday to Sunday.
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till / until
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- We waited till / until half past six for you.
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by
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- not later than; at or before
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- She had promised to be back by five o'clock.
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